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Woot! A little bird gave me the head’s up that Billboard magazine is reporting that 90′s band Letters To Cleo are reuniting this Fall for a short mini-tour that will bring back the core group of original band members for a few West and East Coast shows. Folks may recall that Letters To Cleo had a big radio hit with their song Here and Now and enjoyed a pretty successful string of albums in the mid-90′s. As a fan of the group (and of lead singer Kay Hanley‘s subsequent solo career), I am very excited by this news:

Boston-based rock outfit Letters To Cleo will reunite after an eight-year hiatus for four shows this fall. Original members Kay Hanley (vocals), Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein (guitars) and Stacy Jones (drums) will join forces with Joe Klompus (bass, replacing original bassist Scott Riebling) when the gigs get underway Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. The reunion follows a brief impromptu performance last year during a Boston benefit, which featured the hits “Here & Now” and “Awake.” Says Eisenstein, “We were excited, the crowd was excited, and from that point on, it just seemed like we should try to find a time to do it for real.” Letters To Cleo sprung from Boston on the strength of the 1993 album “Aurora Gory Alice,” which featured “Here & Now.” The group disbanded in 2000, with Hanley moving onto a solo career and such projects as the Disney Channel’s “My Friend Tigger and Pooh” and voicing Josie in the 2001 film “Josie and the Pussycats.”

This is awesome, awesome news for fans of the group. Stacy Jones left LTC to join Veruca Salt around 1997 and then went on to form his own band American Hi-Fi (remember Flavor of the Weak? That was them). LTC put out a couple more albums and then Kay, as the Billboard article states, did her own solo thing after the band broke up in 2000. Kay provided the singing voice on the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack (which was full of amazingly fun pop songs and is deffo worth checking out) and has put out a couple albums on her own for sale on her official website. Yes, the LTC kids have been very bizzy on their own … but this reunion tour (Nov. 8: Los Angeles – Roxy, Dec. 8-9: Boston – Paradise Rock Club and December TBA: New York -venue TBA) is really amazing news. I know that I will be deffo be at the LA show fo’ shizzle. I am very much looking forward to welcoming back Letters to Cleo to the performance stage :)

[Source, thanks Little Bird]